The pictorial history of Fort Wayne, Indiana : a review of two centuries of occupation of the region about the head of the Maumee River, Vol. II, Part 41

Author: Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927; Taylor, Samuel R., Mrs
Publication date: 1917
Publisher: Chicago : Robert O. Law Co.
Number of Pages: 792


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village and with her husband shares the confidence and esteem of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. They have no children.


Edward G. Hoffman .- Whether the activities of Edward G. Hoffman are studied with special reference to his service as a member of the Democratic national central committee, as an attorney, as a business man or as a loyal citizen, there comes such revelation of the salient points of his character as to indicate that he is always found amply fortified to discharge his assigned duties with thoroughness and competency. No man in Fort Wayne has more fully measured up to the true standard of modern citizenship. Fourteen years ago Mr. Hoffman was graduated in the law department of the University of Michigan. He engaged at once in practice at Fort Wayne, as a member of the firm of Ballou & Hoffman, and this professional alliance continued until February, 1914, when he withdrew and became a member of the representative law firm of Barrett, Morris & Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman was born in Springfield township, Allen county, Indiana, October 1, 1878, and is a son of George W. and Anna (Stabler) Hoffman. George W. Hoffman was of German birth and ancestry. He came to America as a young man and, in 1851, settled in Allen county, where he became well known in farming and lumbering circles. Here he passed the remainder of his life and was in his sixty- third year at the time of his death, in 1906. By his first marriage he was the father of one son, and his second wife, mother of Edward G. Hoffman of this review, had one son by her first marriage. Dr. Gideon Hoffman, eldest son of the late George W. Hoffman, is successfully en- gaged in the practice of his profession, and Henry Weicker is the son of Mrs. Hoffman's first marriage, he being a prosperous farmer in Milan township, this county. Of the two children of George W. and Anna (Stabler) Hoffman, Edward G., immediate subject of this sketch, is the elder, and John C. likewise is a representative member of the Allen county bar, engaged in practice in Fort Wayne. The venerable mother now maintains her home at Maysville, this county, her birth having occurred in Canada. Edward G. Hoffman acquired his early education in the schools of Springfield township and the Maysville high school. Thereafter he entered Valparaiso University, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1900 and from which he received the degrees of both Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts. In consonance with his ambition and well matured plans he then entered the law department of the University of Michigan, and in this celebrated institution was graduated in 1903, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. His initial service in the practice of his profession was given in Fort Wayne, where he became a member of the firm of Ballou, Hoffman & Romberg, which became one of best known law firms in the city during the period of his alliance therewith. In February, 1914, as previously noted, Mr. Hoffman withdrew from this firm and entered into partnership with two other able and well known attorneys of Fort Wayne, under the firm name of Barrett, Morris & Hoffman. This firm has its offices in the Shoaff building and controls a general law business, though to a certain extent special attention is given to corporation law, in which branch of practice Mr. Hoffman has won not a little distinction. Mr. Hoffman is secretary and treasurer of the Deister Machine Company, is secretary and treasurer of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette Company, and is a director of the Tri-State Loan & Trust Company. He has shown himself to be an efficient business man as well as a skilled lawyer, and his record amply disproves the common belief that a man can not achieve success in both business


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and professional life. Mr. Hoffman is a thirty-third degree Mason and is affiliated also with the Elks, the Moose and the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Fort Wayne Commercial Club, the Quest Club, the Fort Wayne Country Club, the University Club of Fort Wayne, and the Indiana Society of Chicago. He also retains affiliation with the Sigma Nu college fraternity. A prominent and influential representative of the Democratic party, Mr. Hoffman is now a member of the Demo- cratic national committee, in which position he succeeded Hon. Thomas Taggart, ex-United States senator from Indiana. On May 7, 1912, Mr. Hoffman wedded Miss Emily R. Hoffman, a daughter of William Henry and Maizie (Evans) Hoffman, both of whom are now deceased. Mrs. Hoffman has the distinction of being a niece of Admiral Reynolds, of the United States Navy, and of the General Reynolds who lost his life while in command of his regiment in the battle of Gettysburg, he having been one of the gallant officers of the Union in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman have one daughter, Anne Katharine, who was born Decem- ber 26, 1914, and one son, Edward G. Hoffman, Jr., born August 30, 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman are members of the Presbyterian church and he is a member of the board of trustees of the church with which they main- tain affiliation. Mrs. Hoffman was born and reared in Fort Wayne and has a wide circle of friends in and about the city, while her husband has won to himself the confidence and esteem of an ever increasing number in the years of his establishment here.


G. Max Hofmann is one of the representative business men of Fort Wayne and in the land of his adoption has found opportunity so to use his technical and executive powers as to gain prestige as one of the men of industry in the Hoosier state. He is an expert in connection with scientific and practical details of the gas industry and business, has given efficient service as general superintendent of the Fort Wayne Gas Com- pany, is president of the Western Engineering & Construction Company, of this city, and also of the National Steel Casting Company, of Mont- pelier, Blackford county, Indiana. A man of superabundant energy and progressiveness, he has shown great capacity for the developing and up- building of enterprises of broad scope and importance, but the manifold exactions placed upon him in these connections have not in the least curbed his genial and buoyant nature, so that he has been appreciative of the fine amenities of social life and has gained a host of friends. Mr. Hofmann was born in Dresden, Germany, on November 4, 1857, and is a son of C. A. and Juliane Henrietta Hofmann. In his fatherland he was afforded the best educational advantages, including those of one of the leading colleges in the city of Dresden, and he developed fully his scientific and mechanical talents by acquiring a thorough education as mining engineer. In 1883 Mr. Hofmann came to the United States and soon after his arrival established his residence in Fort Wayne. Later he entered the service of the extensive Bass foundry, at Fort Wayne, which institution he represented for a time in its iron-ore fields in Alabama, in his professional capacity of mining engineer. With the inception and initial development of the natural gas resources in the field about Pitts- burgh, he went into that Pennsylvania field as an expert. Later he re- . turned to Indiana and became associated as chief engineer with the Con- sumers' Gas Company, of Indianapolis. After remaining thus engaged in the Indiana capital city for a period of three years he returned to Fort Wayne, in 1889, and assumed the position of superintendent and technical expert for the Fort Wayne Gas Company, with which corpora-


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tion he continued his active alliance for a period of twenty years: He has been a prominent figure in the development of the natural gas resources of Indiana and other states and has been concerned also in other important public utility enterprises, including the telephone business. In the latter connection it should be noted that he is a director of the companies that control the independent telephone lines in Fort Wayne and its vicinity and a director of the Old National Bank, a direct- or of the Marion and Bluffton Traction Company, is president of the Fort Wayne Testing Laboratory Company, and president of the Fort Wayne Freie Presse Co., besides being president of the Western Engineer- ing & Construction Company and the National Steel Casting Company, as previously noted in this context. Entering fully into the spirit of American institutions and systems, Mr. Hofmann has aligned himself as a stalwart advocate of the principles of the Republican party. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite and those of the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, besides which he is actively affiliated wth the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Royal Arcanum. On August 28, 1880, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hofmann with Miss Bertha Schulze, of Dresden, Germany, and to this union seven children were born, of whom two survive, as follows: Lothar Hofmann, who was born in Germany, December 22, 1881, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in the chemical engineering course. He also studied six years in various parts of Europe and is now a resident of Florida ; Roland Paul Hofmann was born April 12, 1890, in Fort Wayne. He is a graduate from the DePauw university and attended the Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin. He now owns and operates a large fruit and dairy farm in Orange county, Indiana. The wife of Roland Paul Hofmann was formerly Miss Frances Zabel, of Omaha, Nebraska. G. Max Hofmann, of late years, spends his winter in Florida, where lie owns a beautiful home in Palm Beach, besides which he has various financial interests in that state.


William Hoffman was born December 24, 1886, on the farm he now owns and occupies. He is a son of Henry and Henrietta (Herdengan) Hoffman, of German birth, who came to America in 1868, locating in Allen county. A little later on, when they had prospered to some extent, they bought a farm of 159 acres in Madison township, which represents the family home at this writing. The mother died in 1903, but the father still lives and makes his home with his son. They reared there a family of nine children, all living. William alone elected to remain on the home place, and when he had finished his schooling in the common schools of Allen county he turned his attention to farming in real earnest. Not long after he had reached his majority he bought the old homestead and has since continued successfully in his work. Mr. Hoffman specializes somewhat in cattle and makes a practice of buying and feeding cattle for the market. Progressive methods have characterized his work and he is counted among the most progressive and up-to-date farmers in the county today. Mr. Hoffman is a Democrat. At the present writing he is unmarried.


Francis M. Hogan in this history is consistently accorded recognition as one of the representative younger members of the bar of his native city of Fort Wayne. In the general practice of law he has built up a sub- stantial practice, the constantly cumulative tendency of which vouches for his technical ability and personal popularity. He whose name


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initiates this paragraph was born in Fort Wayne on August 3, 1888, and is a son of Hugh T. and Mary Elizabeth (Fitzgibbon) Hogan, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of the state of Ohio. Hugh T. Hogan was a boy at the time of the family immigration from the fair Emerald Isle to America and the home was established in the city of Rochester, New York, in which state he was reared to adult age. Mr. Hogan served in his youth a thorough apprenticeship and became a skilled mechanic. He came to Fort Wayne about the year 1870 and has long been a valued and popular employe in the local shops of the Pennsylvania railroad, where he is now a general foreman and master mechanic. He has re- tained the fullest measure of popular esteem in the city that has long been his home and the stage of his earnest endeavors, he is a Republican in his political adherency and he served at one time as a member of the board of trustees of the municipal waterworks system of Fort Wayne. He is one of the zealous communicants of the Cathedral parish of the Catholic church, as was also his devoted wife, whose death occurred several years ago. Of the children, John and Robert died in infancy; Hugh P. is general foreman in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad shops in the city of Cincinnati; Margaret is the wife of Gustave Stieglitz, of Bedford, In- diana; Harry G. is a member of the law firm of Colerick & Hogan; Genevieve is deceased ; and Francis M., of this review, is the youngest of the number. Francis M. Hogan gained his early education in the schools of the Fort Wayne Cathedral parish of the Catholic church, his discipline including also a high school course, and as a youth he served an ap- prenticeship as a machinist in the Pennsylvania Railroad shops. He followed his trade a comparatively brief interval and later was identified for a short time with the insurance business. His experience has also included effective service as a newspaper reporter, both in Fort Wayne and in the city of Valparaiso, where he simultaneously was a student in Valparaiso University. After he had formulated definite plans for his future career he entered the law department of the great Notre Dame University at South Bend, Indiana, and in this institution he was gradu- ated as a member of the class of 1914, his admission to the bar of his native state having been virtually concomitant with his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He forthwith returned to Fort Wayne, where he has since been individually engaged actively in the legal pro- fession and also has been associated in successful practice with his brother Harry G. Hogan and Guy Colerick, and they have gained enviable place as able trial lawyers and well equipped counselors, as indicated in the extent and representative character of their clientele. Mr. Hogan is a stalwart and enthusiastic advocate of the principles of the Republican party, holds membership in the Fort Wayne Commercial Club, the Friars' Club, the University Club and the One Hundred Per Cent. Club, and is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the Royal League and Ancient Order of Hibernians. He is an active communicant and loyal supporter of the Cathedral parish of the Catholic church in his native city and is one of Allen county's popular young bachelors.


Harry G. Hogan, member of the vigorous and successful law firm of Colerick & Hogan, has proved in his achievement that he made a wise choice of vocation and has definite vantage ground as one of the promi- nent younger members of the Fort Wayne bar. Mr. Hogan is duly proud to claim Fort Wayne as the place of his nativity, his birth having here oc- curred May 4, 1881. He is a son of Hugh T. and Mary Elizabeth (Fitz- gibbon) Hogan, the former of whom has long been a valued employe and


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executive in the local shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad, where he was general foreman, his wife having passed to eternal rest when about fifty- eight years of age, and both having become earnest communicants of Fort Wayne Cathedral parish of the Catholic church many years ago, Mrs. Hogan having been born in Ohio, and Hugh T. Hogan being a native of the Emerald Isle, whence his parents came to America when he was a boy. He was reared and educated in the city of Rochester, New York, where also he learned the trade of machinist, and about the year 1870 established his residence in Fort Wayne, where he has since continued in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, being now one of the veterans in the service of this great corporation. He is a loyal citizen who has taken lively interest in community affairs, is a Republican in politics and served at one time as a trustee of the city waterworks. Of the children in this well known family John and Robert died in infancy; Hugh P. is general foreman in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad shops in the city of Cincinnati; Margaret is the wife of Gustave Stieglitz, of Bedford, Indiana; Harry G., of this sketch was the next in order of birth ; Genevieve is deceased ; and Francis M. is individually mentioned on other pages of this work. To the Catholic parochial schools of his native city Harry G. Hogan is indebted for his early educational discipline, and thereafter he was employed for a time in the drafting rooms of the Fort Wayne plant of the Western Electric Works. IIis ambition, however, lay along different lines and was essentially one of action, so that he finally entered the law department of Notre Dame University, at South Bend, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1904, his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws having been practically con- comitant with his admission to the bar. His initial experience in the practical work of his profession was gained through his assocation with the Fort Wayne law firm of Harper & Eggemann. After practicing a few years, in 1910 he formed a partnership with Guy Colerick, under the firm name of Colerick & Hogan. From 1910 to 1913 he served as city attorney. The firm controls a very successful practice of general order. Mr. Hogan has been an active worker in behalf of the principles of the Republican party, and in addition to having served as secretary of the county committee of the party in 1906 he was chairman of the speaking bureau of the Republican contingent in the city campaign of 1905. In 1908 he was made chairman of the Republican county committee, and in this connection he showed much finesse in maneuvering the political forces at his command. In 1909 he was vice-chairman of the city com- mittee of the party and in 1916 was again able to render efficient service through his incumbency of the position of chairman of the Republican executive committee of the Twelfth congressional district. Mr. Hogan is a loyal and active member of the Fort Wayne Commercial Club, holds membership in the Fort Wayne Country Club, as does he also in the influential Columbia Club in the city of Indianapolis ; he is a communicant of Cathedral parish of the Catholic church and is affiliated with the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Columbus, the Loyal Order of Moose, and the Royal League. On November 28, 1916, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hogan to Miss Virginia S. Olds, daughter of William and Margaret E. (Simonson) Olds, well known citizens of Fort Wayne.


David H. Hogg is a man of excellent intellectual and professional attainments and the same energy and determined purpose that led him to provide largely the means that enabled him to acquire his higher


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literary and technical education have been potent in securing to him strong vantage ground as one of the representative members of the Fort Wayne bar. He has been established in the practice of his profession in Fort Wayne since June, 1913, and is now the junior member of the law firm of Macbeth & Hogg, which controls a substantial and well ordered law business. Mr. Hogg was born in Jackson county, Indiana, and is a son of Nelson and Nancy Hogg, his father having been a farmer by vocation and having served as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. That Mr. Hogg was early imbued with ambition and capacity for assimilative study is shown in the fact that he was graduated from high school when but fifteen years of age. As previously intimated, he depended largely upon his own resources in acquiring his higher educa- tion, and in 1909 was graduated in the University of Indiana with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1912 he received from the law department of the same institution the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and in the mean- while he had taught history and Latin in high school to aid in defraying his collegiate expenses. In June, 1913, Mr. Hogg opened a law office in Fort Wayne, and his diligence and ability combined with his sterling character to gain to him a supporting patronage that made his pro- fessional novitiate one of comparatively brief duration. On January 1, 1916, Mr. Hogg and Jesse Macbeth formed a partnership for the prac- tice of law under the firm name of Macbeth & Hogg. He has subbordin- ated all else to the work of his profession and thus has not sought political preferment, though he accords staunch allegiance to the Republican party. He is a valued and appreciative member of the Allen County Bar Association, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the First Baptist church, of Fort Wayne. In the Sunday School of that church he is teacher of the Men's Bible class, which has been developed under his leadership until it is the largest of the kind in Fort Wayne, and which has totaled one hundred and sixty members at the time of this writing, in the spring of 1917. Mr. Hogg and his mother reside on West Jefferson street and he delivers numerous addresses in this section of Indiana.


Hogue, G. A., (See Blue Cast).


J. F. Hollopeter has been established in the hardware and implement business since 1911, and has enjoyed a very gratifying success in that enterprise in the past five years. He has been a resident of Allen county practically all his life and has been identified with various other lines of activity, but in his present venture he seems to have become perma- nently established. Mr. Hollopeter was born in Cedarville, Allen county, Indiana, June 17, 1880, son of Mathias and Mary E. (Stevick) Hollo- peter, both of Pennsylvania birth. The father came to Allen county as a young man and was engaged in lumbering and farming for years. He died in 1898, but the mother still lives and has her home at Leo, Indiana. Six children were born to these worthy people, here briefly named as follows: Milton is a resident of Jennings county, Indiana ; Bert is located in Fort Wayne; J. F., of this review, was the third child; Lester is located in business in Fort Wayne; Mabel is the wife of Clyde McEwen, of Leo; and Lois is married to William Snyder, of Huntertown, Indiana. Both parents had children by a former marriage. The two children of the father's early marriage, Charles and Allie, are deceased. There were four children of the mother's first. marriage-Morton, George, Ole and Homer. The two eldest are residents of Leo and the two younger ones


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are deceased. When he was seventeen years old young Hollopeter identi- fied himself with farm life and was active in that work until 1900, when he moved to Muncie, Indiana, and there was connected with a planing mill in a mechanical capacity for three years. In 1904 he went to Fort Wayne and was in the employ of the electric street railway company there for about four years, going from that place to Dewitt, Arkansas, where he was for five years manager of the local telephone company. In 1911 he returned to his native state and county, locating in Grabill, where he opened an establishment devoted to the sale of hardware and farm implements. His very gratifying success at this work has already been noted in a previous paragraph. In addition to his activities as a mer- chant Mr. Hollopeter runs a hotel at Grabill with much success. In 1900 Mr. Hollopeter married Miss Daisy May Hill, and they have two children -Helen and Stanley. A Democrat in politics, Mr. Hollopeter finds time to devote to the party interests in his community, and his influence in his home town has been a helpful and progressive power. He has served as justice of the peace in Cedar Creek township for the past six years. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen, but has no other fraternal affiliations.


Rev. George H. Horstman, pastor of St. Andrew's Catholic church, was born at Fort Wayne, November 15, 1872. From the seventh to the fourteenth year of his age he attended St. Mary's parochial school. In 1888 he began his classical studies in St. Lawrence's College, Mount Calvary, Wisconsin. In 1892 he was sent to Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, for the study of philosophy and theology, and was ordained priest by Bishop Rademacher at Fort Wayne, June 24, 1897. His appointments were: Assistant at St. Mary's church, Mich- igan city, till August, 1900; pastor of Reynolds and its missions from August, 1900, to July, 1905; pastor at Remington from July 4, 1905, until July 6, 1910, when he came to Fort Wayne as pastor of the newly organized St. Andrew's Catholic church, in which charge he has continued up to the present time.


Victor A. Huguenard .- The late Victor A. Huguenard was born at Crourchaton Departement de-la-Haute-Saone, France, as the name very strongly suggests, and he died March 5, 1915, when he was in the seventy- sixth year of his life. He was a son of Peter Claude and Frances (Boley) Huguenard, and was about twelve years of age when he accompanied his parents from France to the United States. The family came to Allen county, Indiana, and settled on a farm near Fort Wayne, where the sub- ject of this memoir gained in his youth practical experience in farm work, under the direction of his father. When he reached years of re- sponsibility he launched out into farming on his own account and succeeded admirably in his independent operations as an exponent of agricultural industry. In 1886 he removed to the city of Fort Wayne and here opened a feed barn, the same having been conducted by him for several years and up to the time of his retirement from active business. April 9, 1894, Mr. Huguenard wedded Miss Eugenia Masson, and her death occurred July 1, 1898, the only child of this union being Joseph Victor, who was born February 26, 1897. On October 17, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Huguenard to Miss Mary Jane Leo- nard, of Fort Wayne, and she still maintains her home in this city. Mrs. Huguenard is a daughter of William and Hanora (Carroll) Leonard. William Leonard, who was a gunsmith by trade, came to Fort Wayne in




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